Bad Communication

We kick off this week’s show catching up with our old friend Amanda Taylor from Whoa…I’m in Japan? and talk a bit about her impressions of the country collected over the past six months.  We move on to some great articles talking about the floundering sales of the Nintendo 3DS, a survey of the countries that like the US the most, a very… detailed dental training robot, yet another underwear thief and a discussion about whether or not owning a car in Japan is beneficial or a liability.  Thanks again to our returning guest Amanda Taylor.  Don’t forget: we’ll be doing this live on USTREAM every Monday night at 8:30pm.  See you then!

We kick off this week’s show catching up with our old friend Amanda Taylor from Whoa…I’m in Japan? and talk a bit about her impressions of the country collected over the past six months.  We move on to some great articles talking about the floundering sales of the Nintendo 3DS, a survey of the countries that like the US the most, a very… detailed dental training robot, yet another underwear thief and a discussion about whether or not owning a car in Japan is beneficial or a liability.  Thanks again to our returning guest Amanda Taylor.  Don’t forget: we’ll be doing this live on USTREAM every Monday night at 8:30pm.  See you then!

• Amanda Taylor
• http://whoa-im-in-japan.com/
• http://whoa-im-in-japan.com/2011/07/10-things-i-like-and-dislike-about-tokyo/
• Nintendo 3DS Price Cut Due to Poor Sales [Engadget]
• http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/28/nintendo-3ds-price-drops-from-249-to-169-august-12th-current/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20084846-1/3ds-owners-not-totally-out-of-luck-thanks-to-nintendo-ambassador-program/
• Japanese Like America More Than Americans Do [Pew Global]
• http://pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1
• Dental Training Robot [YouTube]
• http://www.wtfjapanseriously.com/2011/07/dental-training-robot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WtfJapanSeriously+%28wtf+japan+seriously%29
• Underwear Thief is Arrested [YouTube]
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYM1y3PIal8
• Tourists Again Allowed to View Tsukiji Auction [Japan Times]
• http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110727a3.html#.Ti-nInFxTtI.twitter
• Is it Better to Own a Car in Japan [Japan Times]
• http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110719vf.html
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We screw up some of the sweet sound effects coming from Andrew’s new iPad app, but we make up for it in spades with Mully, our guest on the show for this week. There was a lot to talk about this week, and we only get through half of what we were hoping to, but what we did, we did right! We talk about radioactive milk and spinach, a similarly themed pic pick, beautiful sculptures made from recycled chopsticks and do a top 10 weird and bizarre Japanese soft drinks!

We have our first glitch-free live show and have a great turnout in the live chatroom. With the chat running wild, we still manage to talk about anti-groping cameras, our favorite faithful dog Hachiko, a hilarious Subaru Forrester commercial with lots of sexy sumo wrestlers, a top ten list of things men don’t want their wives or girlfriends to know about and a story about Kishidan’s poor choice in costumes. With the Bad Communication Podcast, sexy comes standard!